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Mabey they made wolf quest because balto was part wolf.........
and a wolf is a spiritual creature..................

Honestly, I don't know...For making money of course, they all do, but I still don't exactly know what pushed them to make a sequel. Especially if they didn't intend to make it with a better budget and promoting. Maybe they just saw that Balto 1 made good sales in video cassette, so they decided they could earn a little more with a sequel.

THey made wolfquest, because like the other posters noted, Balto was succuful enough so Unvisersal though they could make more money with a sequal and it worked but by the thrid try it died. Anways, its predictable enough as you've seen with the Disney sequals.

Hmm, you make a good point, Steet. That would make a good reason to continue a not-so-profitable film into the land of Sequel-ville. More movies, more sequels, more money. It worked with the Land Before Time series, why not with Balto, right?

But I think that maybe someone at Universal Cartoon Studios might have taken a sudden interest to the original and probably thought, "I wonder . . . what happened after Balto became a hero? Would he and Jenna start a family? What if one of his children inherited his appearance?"

Oh, the possibilities.

That would be an interesting question to ask the writer of WQ, don't ya think?

- Juuchan17

I think they made WQ as an experiment, to spend more time with the characters and get them in new situations. It wasn't anything at all like the original because it didn't try to be. (unlike WoC!) For me, that's what a sequel is all about.

I think they pulled it off pretty well, but once they realised people didn't like the idea, they tried to make another sequel more like the original.